Senior Automation QA Engineer

Ciklum; United States; Remote; USD 19,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Mental health support

Financial & legal consultations

Udemy access

Language courses

Company-paid certifications

Job summary

Ciklum is seeking a Senior Automation QA Engineer to join our team in India on a full-time basis. You will lead automation efforts, migrate the suite to Playwright, and work within a cross-functional team to deliver reliable testing across UI and API layers.

The role emphasizes building robust automation frameworks, integrating tests in CI/CD, and mentoring teammates while ensuring high product quality. English proficiency and overlap with US timings are expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional QA automation experience for web and API testing.
• Strong JavaScript development skills and testing frameworks knowledge.
• Experience creating and maintaining automation frameworks from scratch.
• Proficiency with PlaywrightJS or similar tools.
• Experience with CI/CD integration and test reporting.
• Excellent English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Architect test automation frameworks from scratch
• Develop automated UI tests & API tests
• Integrate automated scripts into the CI/CD process
• Develop, maintain, and expand automated testing infrastructure
• Define Quality Metrics and report test results
• Collaborate with QA to automate manual tests
• Onboard new team members on the project
• Provide technical guidance to testing teams
• Mitigate testing risks

Skills

QA Automation

JavaScript

Playwright

CI/CD

English proficiency

Tools

PlaywrightJS

Jest

CI/CD tools

Job description

Ciklum is looking for a Senior Automation QA Engineer to join our team full-time in India.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Senior Automation QA Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. Assess the current Automation suite and migrate them to Playwright and suitable technology.

Responsibilities:

• Architect test automation frameworks from scratch
• Develop automated functional UI tests & API/Service level tests
• Integrate automated scripts into the CI/CD process
• Develop, maintain, and expand automated testing infrastructure
• Devise and document test frameworks, coding standards, preferred design patterns, and development methodologies
• Ensure code quality with peer reviews to ensure guidelines and standards are followed
• Define Quality Metrics and implement measurements to determine test effectiveness, and testing efficiency, and measure the overall quality of the Product as a part of the test automation process
• Conclude and report about the quality of the product under test
• Collaborate with other members of the QA team to automate the manual test processes
• Manage, analyze, and mitigate testing risks
• Onboarding of new team members on the project
• Technical advice for the testing teams

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional experience in QA Automation of Web and backend/API testing
• Excellent knowledge of different testing methods, techniques, types, and methodologies
• Experience creating test documentation (test strategy, test plans, etc.)
• Experience in the creation of automation frameworks from scratch
• Solid skills in JavaScript, programming patterns, and principles
• Experience in integrating test reporting (Allure or similar)
• Experience with BDD, ATDD, and TDD approaches
• Knowledge of testing framework such as PlaywrightJS / PuppeteerJS / Webdriver IO
• Experience with at least one of test runners: JasmineJS, MochaJS, Jest, AVA, Playwright
• Understanding of the event loop model in JavaScript and async execution
• Good understanding of CSS and XPATH selectors syntax
• Experience with continuous integration processes at least one (Jenkins, Bitbucket CI/CD, GitHub Actions, team city, or similar)
• Experience of working with version control systems (e.g. GIT, SVN and others)
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum/Kanban.
• Experience with continuous integration processes and tools, CI/CD pipelines
• Good knowledge of AWS/Azure DevOps services
• Good Knowledge of SQL and no-SQL DBs (PostgreSQL, mongo, redis, etc.)
• Experience of working in an Agile Scrum/Kanban development environment
• Good English skills Upper-Intermediate and above
• Strong level spoken and written proficiency in English
• Availability to work with 4 hours of overlap with the central US area

What’s in it for you?

• Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
• Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
• Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
• Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
• Care: We’ve got you covered with company-paid medical insurance, mental health support, and financial & legal consultations

About us:

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.

India is a strategic innovation hub for Ciklum, with growing teams in Chennai and Pune leading advancements in EdgeTech, AR/VR, IoT, and beyond. Join us to collaborate on game-changing solutions and take your career to the next level.

Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!

Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.